Wise Poets of the Present
Modern Sonnet
Modern Sonnet Although the forms of the classical 14 line Petrarchan and English sonnets were written in stone, time marches on and with that onward march comes change. The post…
Twitter Driven Micro Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets
Twitter Driven Micro-Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets The decade of the 90’s sand beyond 2000 was the age of the short poem, with the submission guidelines averaging…
Canada’s Jamie Routley: The Voice of Contemporary Romance
Canada’s Jamie Routley The Voice of Today’s Contemporary Romance Today’s romance poetry is different from that of the Romantic era in that it is more realistic because it includes verse…
Now Presenting India’s Own Up and Coming Indie Author
Now Presenting India’s Own Indie Author Yasir Sulaiman Yasir Sulaiman is the prolific author od five books written on the dark side of love; Who is There: Two Tales of…
Now Presenting Daily Wisdom Words Own Poet Guildford Windley
Now Presenting Daily Wisdom Words Own Poet Guildford Windley Almost all poets are deeply affected by happenings in childhood and important people along the way, and this is Poet Guildford’s…
Joy Harjo: Modern Edition of the American Indian Oral Tradition
Joy Harjo: Modern Edition of the American Indian Oral Tradition At the beginning of the the 20th century living conditions for Native Americans were so bad life came down to…
The Greek Greats: The Austerity Songs
The Greek Greats: The Austerity Songs It seems that good poetry always comes on the heels of deep suffering and today’s Greek poets are no different. And my, how the…
Simon Armitage: The Queen’s Choice
Simon Armitage: The Queen’s Choice Simon Armitage, born on May 26, 1963 in Yorkshire , England is the wise poet of the present who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth to…
Forrest Gander: The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry
Forrest Gander is the renown award-winning poet and translator who won this current year’s Pulitzer prize for his book Be With. Be with is a collection of poems dealing…
Bob Dylan: The Conscience of a Counter-Culture
Bob Dylan: The Conscience of a Counter-Culture He moved a generation to action with these heart-probing lyrics in which he questions the purpose of racism and war: Blowin in the…
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Man Who Elevated Rap
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Man Who Elevated Rap Rap music, it seems that one either loves it or hates it, And I think that one is more apt to love it…
Wise Poets of the Present: Nikki Giovanni
by: Shirley Satterfield Nikki Giovanni: The Voice of Triumph in the Aftermath of a Mass Shooting On April 16, 2007 there was an unusual sound ringing out at Ambler Johnson…
Wise Poets of the Past
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense Some poets are famous for only one poem, and Francis Scott Key, a Fredrick, Maryland lawyer is the amateur poet who…
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World Mary Oliver was such a natural born poet that she started writing by the young age of 14, eventually winning…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Sonnet Elizabeth Browning was the proverbial child prodigy who began writing at the early age of 11, and her lifetime body…
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of the Wise Poets
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of Wise Poets Form. Form. Form. Form is what the sonnet is all about. All types of sonnets are written by the same basic rules…
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry Award winning Cuban poetess Excilia Saldaña is the Wise Poet of this week. Born in on August 7, 1946, she was raised…
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South William Faulkner, he was the legend the English class who was known as the writer whose intellect was so big that…
Ezra Pound: The Wise Poet Arrested for Treason
Erza Pound: The Wise Poet Arrested for Treason Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born in the rural Idaho on October 30, 1885, was a pioneer in the early Imagist movement in…
Dr. Geisel Seuss: The Pied Piper of Children’s Poetry
Dr. Seuss: The Pied Piper of Children’s Poetry Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, was the author who spirited away a generation of children from their…
Mark Twain: Man of the Mighty Mississippi
Mark Twain: The Man of the Mighty Mississippi The stock advise for aspiring writers is to “Write what you know,” and Mark Twain did just that. He was born, with…
They Kissed the Blarney Stone: The Wise Bards of Ireland
They Kissed the Blarney Stone: The Wise Bards of Ireland With the advent of Christianity and monasteries in Ireland came the commencement of a new age of literacy and alphabet…
Ernest Hemingway: The Paradox of a Full and Empty Life
Ernest Hemingway: The Paradox of a Full and Empty Life Ernest Hemingway was what you call a “Man’s Man”, and he did just about everything. He was a traveler, a…
T. S. Eliot: A Tale of Two Countries
T. S. Eliot: A Tale of Two Countries Today’s distinguished poet T.S. Eliot wrote such intellectually challenging verse that it is difficult to read his poetry without cross-referencing some of…
Charlotte Bronte an Author of Immense Gothic Suspense
Charlotte Bronte With secret rooms in looming towers and gloomy mansions nessled in the countryside Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily set the stage for the classic Gothic novel with…
Slave Girl PhillisWheatley and Her Amazing Life and Works
Slave Girl Phillis Wheatley and Her Amazing Life and Works Phillis Wheatley, born in 1753 in Senegal, West Africa, was a woman of uncanny talent and intelligence, Kidnapped in her…
Mother Teresa: The Secret Sainted Bard
Mother Teresa: The Sainted Secret Bard Not wanting to garner too much public attention for her writings, Mother Teresa of Calcutta wrote her diary and poems in secret as part…
Les Murray: Great Poet of the Vast Outback
OLes Murray: The Great Poet of the Vast Outback The magnitude of the open landscape of Australia can be beyond a man’s imagination, but was deftly captured by Australia’s leading…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Quintessential American Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Quintessential American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a poet who was deeply entrenched in both the fabric of the American spirit and American history, He was…
A Woman on the Cutting Edge of Free
Virginia Woolf: A Woman on the Cutting Edge of Free Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882 in South Kensington, London the seventh a large upper middle class blended…